Leó Festetics

{{short description|Patron of music and amateur composer}}

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Count Leó Festetics de Tolna (8 October 1800, Pécs, Hungary{{spaced ndash}}15 November 1884), was a patron of music and an amateur composer, from a prominent Croatian Hungarian family, Festetics.[http://mek.niif.hu/03600/03630/html/f/f05510.htm Festetics Leo][http://mek.niif.hu/02100/02139/html/sz07/217.html Festetics Leó, gr.]

He was a friend and correspondent of Franz Liszt, who dedicated to him his Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 in A minor (1847, pub. 1853). Liszt based his Spanisches Ständchen (S. 487) on a melody provided by Count Festetics. In 1856, Festetics published his designs for a theatre (British Library collection).